This is Scott with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast. These are ten of the stories that we're following at Becker's Healthcare. The stories help to paint a picture of health care currently. IV fluid shortages, labor union challenges, efforts to make systems profitable, more and more are focused by systems again on the more profitable services to the systems. 1st, Prisma Health South Carolina opens a $32,000,000 surgery center project. That's a big surgery center project. 2nd, Isaac Permanente to lay off more California workers. They followed filed another warm notice about laying off some California workers. 3rd, a story about Temple Health moving its operating performance back to the black. Amazing effort by Temple Health to do so. 4th, Baxter trying to import IV fluids to relieve US shortages. These were due to a manufacturing plant closure with Baxter now trying to make this work again. It's a similar story. How some strategies to mitigate the IV shortages, what to know? Those are both by Alexandra Murphy. 6th, as an aside, we just wrapped up the Becker's health IT and revenue cycle 2,024 meeting. Our best IT conference in years. Kudos to Jessica Cole, Katie Atwood, Annie Stokes, Laura Dirda, Jenny Adhesio, and a whole lot more. 7th, Stanford Hospital, nurses approved a labor deal with 80% pay boost. 8th, 24100 Kaiser mental health workers beginning an open ended strike. Just another sign of the times. Now challenging things are out there on the labor side for health systems. 9th, McLaren Health forms a new heart and vascular institute. Again, like the surgery center at Prisma, more and more systems focusing on those things that drive the most profits. And finally, 10th, Mount Sinai opens a center for patients with complex conditions. Again, this is a sign of the times is what you're seeing out there is, long term, long haul COVID, long haul Lyme disease, other kinds of issues. A lot of that we're seeing out there, and thus health systems responding to that. A real close friend just went to Mayo for a similar issue. A lot of that out there. In any event, thank you for listening to the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, and thank you to our producer, Chanel Banger. Thank you very, very much.
